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Sep 6, 2016

Venturing down the IoT Rabbit Hole

The Microsoft Hackathon found us this year tinkering with some IoT-related technologies. Bernd, Bence, Balázs and me also tried to evaluate the reality of the commercially available iOT devices — and found a promising, but somewhat grim landscape.

We tried to bring to life the following four devices in different scenarios:

The Good

The smoothest learning curve was definitely provided by the WiPy.

WiPy with an infrared distance sensor connected

“When the WiPy boots with the default factory configuration starts in Access Point mode with ssid that starts with: wipy-wlan and key: www.wipy.io. Connect to this network and the WiPy will be reachable at 192.168.1.1. In order to gain access to the interactive prompt, open a telnet session to that IP address on the default port (23). You will be asked for credentials: login: micro and password: python.”

Connecting a sensor and typing the following lines in the prompt will give you instant gratification — and data.